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Serial Killers & Murderous Minds

Serial Killers & Murderous Minds takes you deep into the psychology of history's most chilling murderers, from infamous serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy to ruthless cult leaders, deadly exes, and spree killers. Every Monday and Thursday, hosts Vanessa Richardson and Dr. Tristin Engels, a clinical and forensic psychologist, blend gripping true crime storytelling with expert analysis to uncover what drives people to kill. What fuels their darkness? How do their minds work? And most hauntingly, could they have been stopped? Serial Killers & Murderous Minds is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios. Follow us on YouTube...

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Real People. Real Crimes | Introducing CRIMES OF REDDIT, a new Crime House podcast!
Aug 28, 2026

Reddit is an endless archive of humanity’s most disturbing, bizarre, and deeply human stories. If you love Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, you are going to love CRIMES OF REDDIT with Alexis Linkletter and Sabrina Deana-Roga.

Every Tuesday, one host brings a set of true-crime stories while the other reacts in real time with no prep, no spoilers asking the questions on everyone’s mind. They pull at every thread until the whole twisted picture comes into view. It’s dark, it’s messy, and the scariest part is simple: THESE ARE STORIES POSTED BY REAL PEOPLE.

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Shelly Michael: Nurse, Wife, and Killer Pt. 2
Aug 27, 2026

In November 2005, Morgantown, West Virginia, pediatric nurse practitioner Shelly Michael injected her sleeping husband Jimmy with a surgical paralytic, then set their home ablaze to conceal the crime. What investigators found —a body without soot in its lungs, a secret affair, and a controlled medication only she could access — built an airtight case against a woman her community trusted completely.

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Shelly Michael: Nurse, Wife, and Killer Pt. 1
Aug 24, 2026

In Morgantown, West Virginia, pediatric nurse practitioner Shelly Michael appeared to have built the perfect life: a successful career, a beautiful home, and a blended family. But beneath that polished surface, she was carrying on a secret affair and quietly laying the groundwork for her husband Jimmy's murder.

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Campus Crimes: The Murder of Betsy Aardsma
Aug 23, 2026

The third episode of Campus Crimes follows the events of the Friday after Thanksgiving 1969, when 22-year-old graduate student Betsy Aardsma was stabbed through the heart in the basement stacks of Penn State's Pattee Library, surrounded by people, in broad daylight, and dead within minutes. A man walked calmly out of the stacks, said five words, and vanished; no one was ever charged. Decades of institutional silence, a scrubbed crime scene, and a suspect who died before investigators assembled the full picture left her family without justice.

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SERIAL KILLER: The Monster of Florence Pt. 2 with Alexis Linkletter from Crimes of Reddit
Aug 20, 2026

For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined again by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. Between 1968 and 1985, a killer known as the Monster of Florence murdered eight couples on remote roads outside Florence, Italy, leaving behind chilling physical evidence and no clear culprit. Despite decades of investigation, multiple arrests, and shocking courtroom twists, no one was ever conclusively identified as the sole perpetrator. Forensic analysts are still examining DNA evidence today, and the case remains officially unsolved.

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SERIAL KILLER: The Monster of Florence Pt. 1 with Alexis Linkletter from Crimes of Reddit
Aug 17, 2026

For this episode, Vanessa and Dr. Engels are joined by Alexis Linkletter, co-hose of Crime House's newest show Crimes of Reddit. In 1968, a young couple was shot dead in the Italian countryside while their six-year-old son slept in the back seat: a crime that quietly launched one of Italy's most haunting serial killing sprees. For over a decade, a gunman stalked couples parked in remote areas outside Florence, leaving behind little evidence and a signature pattern of brutal mutilation. When investigators finally linked the crimes through a single .22-caliber Beretta pistol, the trail led back to that very first murder.

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Campus Crimes: Death in the Ivory Tower
Aug 16, 2026

On February 12, 2010, biology professor Amy Bishop opened fire on her colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, killing three and wounding three more after being denied tenure. But investigators quickly discovered the shooting wasn't her first act of violence: a quarter century of buried history, closed files, and institutional failures had put a gun in that room long before tenure ever came up. This second episode of Campus Crimes traces the deaths of Gopi Podila, Maria Davis, and Adriel Johnson, and the chain of overlooked warnings that preceded them.

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Joji Obara: Thirty Years of Hidden Crimes in Japan Pt. 2
Aug 13, 2026

In July 2000, 21-year-old British hostess Lucie Blackman vanished after a date with a man she knew only as Mr. Kowa. In reality, he Joji Obara, a serial predator who had drugged and assaulted over 200 women across three decades in Japan. It was Lucie's own phone calls the night she disappeared, and the courage of his past victims who came forward, that finally brought Obara to justice.

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Joji Obara: Thirty Years of Hidden Crimes in Japan Pt. 1
Aug 10, 2026

Vanessa and Dr. Engels get into the case of Japanese serial rapist Joji Obara, who for thirty years, drugged and assaulted hundreds of women across Japan, documenting his crimes in chilling detail. Hiding behind false names and a surgically altered face, he evaded justice while his attacks escalated.

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Campus Crimes: The Murder of Jane Stanford
Aug 9, 2026

In the first of our four-part limited series "Campus Crimes," Vanessa breaks down the 1905 murder of Jane Stanford, co-founder of Stanford University, who was poisoned to death in a Honolulu hotel room. A coroner's jury ruled it murder, the evidence was clear, and the prime suspect had motive and opportunity. But the university's own president intervened, hired a compliant doctor, and replaced a murder verdict with "heart failure" in a cover-up that held for a hundred years.

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